Amazon Web Services poster child, Eli Lilly has walked away from using the cloud computing service after failing to come to terms over legal indemnification issues. Sources close to Eli Lilly say the pharmaceutical giant was at its wits end trying to negotiate a contract with AWS that would push some accountability for network outages, security breaches and other forms of risk inherent in the cloud, to Amazon Web Services. But it got nowhere, these sources said. Eli Lilly began using AWS over a year ago to analyze and crunch non-production data much faster than it could on its own infrastructure. It was able to launch servers on AWS in minutes rather than months, saving millions of dollars in IT costs. However, as the company has tried to move more high-profile datasets including corporate data to AWS, it wanted Amazon to assume more liability should there be a breach or outage that affected its business. "Amazon has one contract and you can take it or leave it," the source said. "They won't assume any liability." To Continue Reading: Click Here -------------------------------------------- Source: searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com By: Jo Maitland

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